Go Falcons!
New Newcastle Falcons head coach, Gary Gold has insisted that he is in the long game with the Falcons and that relegation this season would not spell the end of the Newcastle club.
Neighbours West Hartlepool are one of many great Northern sides to have fallen from Rugby’s top table to lower league obscurity and Gold is determined that the Falcons will not follow the likes of West, Liverpool St Helens and Orrell.
Read MoreNewcastle Falcon’s parted company with Coach Alan Tait this week and the instant response on the pitch has already shown promise.
The Falcons main concern for the remainder of this season will be to secure Premiership survival but their display against Petarca Padova in the Challenge Cup will give a glimmer of hope to this seemingly impossible chance.
Read MoreNewcastle has appointed a new director of rugby and they have turned to Gary Gold of South Africa as Alan Tait was relieved of his directorial responsibilities.
Also Mike Ford, the former defence coach of England has also joined the rugby club’s backroom staff as the team faces relegation.
Read MorePremiership strugglers Newcastle did just about enough to wrap up victory against Toulon in the opening matches of the weekend.
Jonny Wilkinson returned to Kingston Park, but spent the whole 80 minutes sat on the substitute’s bench as an unused substitute. The game was never going to be a free flowing, high scoring encounter at a cold windy Kingston Park and so it proved to be. Newcastle indeed ran out winners in a tight encounter. Two penalties in three minutes from Jimmy Gopperth proved enough for the Falcons to run out victorious by six points to three.
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Read MoreNewcastle defeated Leeds in the most demoralising of fashions in the battle of the bottom two clubs at Headingley.
Falcons made the perfect start after seven minutes with Ally Hogg’s try before Jimmy Gopperth added two penalties shortly before the break.
Newcastle extended their lead with two more Gopperth kicks to make it 17-0.
Leeds’ consistent errors and Falcons’ stern defending restricted the hosts to Scott Freer’s 65th-minute try before Jeremy Manning sealed the victory.
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